Puffy ack

[moot]

Worst feature in the game, 10 years in.  It could spread out its seeding box the more you maneuver and the faster and further you are from the guns, but doesn't.  No need for any expensive calculations for that. 
A fighter flying at 450mph, miles away from the CV, behind mountains, shouldn't get hit and damaged 5 bursts in. If the collision calcs against the landscape aren't possible, then an emulation of the effect could be made by proportionately spreading out or tightening the seed box.  It's anything but obvious how everything in the game is so well done, but not this.

[Noir]

Worst feature in the game, 10 years in.  It could spread out its seeding box the faster and further you are from the guns, but doesn't.  No need for any expensive calculations for that.

Yes, a "feature" from 10 years ago...I guess you can't do better with a 486DX2-66 as server 

(ok that was easy  )

[toonces3]

I don't want to ankle hump, but doggone moot you've been making some good points on the board lately.

 

[Adonai]

Worst feature in the game, 10 years in.  It could spread out its seeding box the more you maneuver and the faster and further you are from the guns, but doesn't.  No need for any expensive calculations for that. 
A fighter flying at 450mph, miles away from the CV, behind mountains, shouldn't get hit and damaged 5 bursts in. If the collision calcs against the landscape aren't possible, then an emulation of the effect could be made by proportionately spreading out or tightening the seed box.  It's anything but obvious how everything in the game is so well done, but not this.

Not even CV Ack, I ran into double dose of nasty ack - Bishops had a CV off A92 in orange Around (where tank town is) -
Not only I get peppered by CV Ack running away but - double the ack as the Factory ack started shooting at me.

Double the ack leads to one thing - I had no more 109 left. Oh who'd think I duck behind the mountains I'd be safe, noooo
thats where I got nailed 3 times in a row, first took my oil second a PW and third my wing.

[moot]

Adonai, when you really need to save your bacon, you can dive to below 3k... Somehow it doesn't seem to work (I can't recall if it's supposed to or not) if you're hugging the ground over >3kft land.

I don't want to ankle hump, but doggone moot you've been making some good points on the board lately.

 

Believe it or not, it's not my idea, and the guy that came up with it is French!

[Adonai]

Adonai, when you really need to save your bacon, you can dive to below 3k... Somehow it doesn't seem to work (I can't recall if it's supposed to or not) if you're hugging the ground over >3kft land.Believe it or not, it's not my idea, and the guy that came up with it is French!

Problem was the mountains were above 3k, and i was dancing around them tryin to be lowest i could be.

[Sloehand]

Quite some time back (don't even remember the map), I'm climbing a very steep mountain in an Osti trying to get to a factory.  There is another factory fairly close by as well and out of sight.  All of a sudden, puffing ack is going off all around my Osti!  On the ground!  LOL That was a weird experience.

[Nilsen]

That should teach all you over 3k alt monkeys to get down were you belong 

[evenhaim]

<has film of me in a 262 within a few miles of a cv not even in vis range, and no puffs at all just 1 puff and boom like 500mph laser gun with perfect aim.

[Lusche]

Problem was the mountains were above 3k, and i was dancing around them trying to be lowest i could be.

Remember A2 on Mindanao? Base was at 5K, troop strat was only like 3 miles away but at sea level. When the enemy captured the zone base, you were in puffy ack while still rolling on field... 

[moot]

That should teach all you over 3k alt monkeys to get down were you belong 

http://rapidshare.com/files/121784490/film27_0000.ahf.html
...

[angelsandair]

I have been around when there was a CV, not even in vis range killing me in 1 or 2 shots. I think I may have some film of it, (but I may have deleted it, I deleted all my film a while ago). It is very frustrating, how about it starts firing when you are like 6k from the carrier? Or 5k or something...

[BaldEagl]

Quite some time back (don't even remember the map), I'm climbing a very steep mountain in an Osti trying to get to a factory.  There is another factory fairly close by as well and out of sight.  All of a sudden, puffing ack is going off all around my Osti!  On the ground!  LOL That was a weird experience.

I had that happen too.  I think that was in AHI.

[blkmgc]

Damn ack weenies, best squad in the game. <GDR>

[Yenny]

I lost a 262 to puffy ack a bit ago. 1st few hits were close, so I nose down and dove out of it. Pushing almost 650knts and it still took me out=/ Even worst, I had no visual on the CV.